The Daily Beast's Eli Lake reports the Obama administration has engaged in "midlevel discussions" with Cuba over the last six months. “The Cubans regularly say to people that they are ready for a different relationship,” Dan Restrepo, the former head of Latin America policy on Obama's first term National Security Council, told Lake. Right now that relationship is obviously not going well.

A lot of the attention inside those discussions focused on the release of Alan Gross, a 64-year-old American subcontractor detained in Cuba since 2009 and accused of being a spy. The Cuban government offered Gross's release in exchange for four Cubans convicted of espionage in the U.S. in 2001. The U.S. has so far refused to take that deal.

But, still, Lake thinks the midlevel talks and the handshake seen 'round the world could lead to the infamous "something more." Jon Stewart didn't think the handshake meant much, but what does he know? Let's not forget the nuclear deal with Iran started with a chalice and a telephone call. A handshake in public? Gosh, Cuba and the U.S. are practically dating.